Truecrypt - protect your flashdisks

One interesting solution to keep your data securely stored in flashdisks is to use Truecrypt (http://www.truecrypt.org/) as encryption solution.

Truecrypt is relatively easy to install and use. One difficulty I faced was to copy files and directories named with special characters between Windows and Linux. Symbols like á, à, ç, â are indeed very common in the Brazilian Portuguese.


To cope with some incompatibility, go to "preferences" and add the parameter iocharset=utf8 to the filesystem's mount options.

This must guarantee adequate file transfers between Windows and Linux.